Judith Weisenfeld
Author
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions
Shows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America that still resonate today
When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro...